Action4Canada - July 30, 2022


Dan Vachon： How to Grow Food Even if You Live in the City


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2 minutes

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171.35292

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453

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1

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Growing a lasagna garden doesn't have to be difficult or expensive. There are lots of ways you can do it in your own space. You don't even need a tiller to grow your own lasagna.

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00:00:00.000 now some of you live in the city and you're crammed for space there may not be space some
00:00:08.920 of you live in neighborhoods where there may be a little bit of space and you've got to consider
00:00:13.400 options so here's some options you can get together with some of your neighbors and community gardens
00:00:19.480 that's becoming a very popular thing and you know there's different ways of doing community gardens
00:00:26.560 community gardens bring people together it's an opportunity to raise awareness and community
00:00:33.700 gardens can be absolutely anywhere
00:00:35.400 now maybe you do have a little bit of space and you don't have to be italian to grow a lasagna garden 0.84
00:00:47.180 now i know some of you know exactly what i'm talking about and uh oh thank you
00:00:52.940 i have tried this and used it many many places as a matter of fact all of my raised beds
00:01:00.900 are done in this way because we live on a gravel pit here i actually bought a dump truck load of
00:01:07.460 dirt last year that was supposed to be topsoil i put it in my raised beds and it grew absolutely
00:01:12.740 nothing as a matter of fact half the dump truck load was left over at the end of the summer i didn't
00:01:18.060 even have one single weed growing in that pile of good for nothing nothing so here's what i did this
00:01:27.100 year in my raised beds i did lasagna bed gardening basically you can start with grass you don't even
00:01:32.480 need a tiller you only you don't even need talent so you get some uh newspaper four or five layers of
00:01:39.400 newspaper and you wet them or cardboard you wet it you get bags of manure from your local um uh co-op
00:01:46.860 store or farm supply store or a lot of the garden centers are closed now for the season so they may
00:01:53.000 have that stuff on sale you get some chopped leaves some peat moss some grass clippings from uh mowing
00:01:58.740 your lawn gather your grass clippings from your neighbor gather your your compost from your neighbors
00:02:04.400 throw that on top more chopped leaves a thin layer of peat moss get some straw and if you don't have
00:02:10.260 straw leave your grass clippings to dry for a few days until they turn ground there's your layer of
00:02:16.320 straw a little bit of blood meal more grass clippings some peat moss a tiny little bit of soil
00:02:22.040 chopped leaves compost and then if you actually want to plant in there right away a thin layer of dirt
00:02:27.560 throw your seeds on there and you will grow not lasagnas but whatever your seeds are
00:02:33.560 you'll be amazed at what you can grow
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